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Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach

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  Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach tjohnson <tandrewjohnson@outlook.com> - 2015-08-07 21:41 -0400
    Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-07 20:20 -0700

#95153 — Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach

On 8/7/2015 9:10 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/7/2015 7:29 AM, tjohnson wrote:
>> On 8/6/2015 7:31 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>> On 8/6/2015 11:35 AM, Timothy Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>>> problems because it works well for that. Most of the time I use PyDev
>>>> and Notepad++ to edit Python code, but if more features were added to
>>>> Idle I would consider using it more.
>>>
>>> What 1 or 2 features would you most like to see?
>>>
>> Practically, I'd say a line number margin
>
> Patch is mostly done but I need to review (sooner than later).
>
Great.
>> and right edge indicator.
>
> Do you mean at column 80 or something?
>
Yes, exactly.
>> Theoretically, a tabbed editor
>
> *Many* people want this.  I think this should be the highest priority
> new big feature.
>
I agree.
>  > and dockable interpreter pane.
>
> Please explain.
>
Currently the interpreter is shown in a separate floating window. If it 
was dockable, it could also be placed in the same window as the text 
editor but separated by a splitter.

Examples: wxPython AUI panes, Firefox bookmarks pane
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tjohnson <tandrewjohnson@outlook.com> writes:
> Currently the interpreter is shown in a separate floating window. If
> it was dockable, it could also be placed in the same window as the
> text editor but separated by a splitter.

Dockable would be nice but the split window is ok with me.  What I wish
is that Control-N in the interpreter window (or maybe some newly
assigned hotkey) would launch a Python editing window instead of a text
window.  Better still, have it already editing a temp file so that I can
immediately type code and hit F5 and run it, without the "Save as"
dance.

Also the "save on close" dialog buttons should say "save" and "don't
save" instead of "yes" and "no".  Lots of programs have dialogs like
that and the senses keep differing so it's easy to misread the prompt.

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